Garment



L. NOVY Aug. 24, 1943.

GARMENT Filed NOV. 26, 1942 4r roe/MEX Patented Aug. 24, 1943 2,327,662 UNITED STATES PATENT `oFFlcE GARIKENT Loretta, Navy, st. Louis, Mo., assignnr to weil- Kalter Manufacturing Company, St. Louis, Mo., a corporation of Missouri Application November 26, 1942, Serial No. 466,998 1 Claim. (Cl. 2-73) 'This invention relates to improvements in ment over garments in which the front and sides womens garments. and more particularly to an of undergarment referred to as a slip.

An object of the invention is to provide a oi over the head of the wearer and, by inherent construction, snugly t the waist and bust when worn.

Another object of .the invention is to provide a woman's slip having a front panel of material l0 by a central seam, as illustrated in Fig. 2. The

ngii-,udjna1 dimensign of the slip when the 15 the bust and waist sections, 'and when Worn the contour of the wearer, It will be noted by reference to Fig. 1, that the Another object of the invention is to provide front panel iS formed with a V-Shaped extension a garment of the class mentioned, which is simple 5 that 1lares OllWaldly at the bottom and the in construction, and yet which Will accomplish bust panels are Seemed theleCO, and by lreferthe objects recited.

Additional objects will be apparent from the following detailed description of the invention. taken in conjunction with the accompanying drawing, in which:

Fig. 1 is a front view of the garment;

Fig. 2 is a rear view;

Fig. 3 is a section on the line 3 3 of Fig, 1; 30 In a Slip 01 like garment, a skirt portion and pig. 4 is a section on the une q q of Fig, 2; an upper portion, comprising a front skirt panel and having a. lower edge, lateral edges and an upper forms the front of the skirt and extends cir-v tend around the s ideS 0f the garment into the that there is little or no circumferential stretch 40 1901451011 extending upwardly abOVe `the Waist to- The skirt is completed by a back panel 3, formed as 1s particularly illustrated in Fig. 2, in which it will be noted that the, panel extends across the back of the waist and while cut vertihaving lateral edges joined to the lateral edgs cally on the edges, curves to the natural gure when Worn.

cumferentially, and adjust closely to the wearers @eeh extending laterally from the junction, and

The shortening of the vertical dimension of the 0f breast Panels Cut 011 the bias, ea u vantage, and constitutes an important lmprovethe skirt are formed on the bias, because 

